"I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite."
- Margaret Mitchell
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
"You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen..."
"[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured."
"Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, ..."
"She had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ..."
"This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent"
"But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?"
"Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness," he enumerated silkily. "You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringi..."
"I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting lik..."